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L. H..WINEMAN.

DUPLEX PENHOLDER. APPLICATION 1.20 FEB. 11. m9.

1,303,442. Patented May 13, 1919.

LILLIAN H. WINEMAN, OF DEVILS LAKE, NORTH DAK OTA.

DUPLEX PENHOLDER.

' Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 13, 1919.

Application filed February 11, 1919. Serial No. 276,419.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LIL-LIAN H. WrNEMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Devils Lake, in the county of Ramsey and State of North Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Duplex Penholders, of which the following 1s a specification.

The object of my invention is the provision of a penholder having improved carriers adapted for holding two pens, independently of each other, permitting the use of one pen or the other at will, according to the requirements of the user. With my penholder, the respective pens may be used for differently colored inks, for instance red and black, or, two difierent kinds of pens may be held by the respective pen-carriers and one or the other used, according to the nature of the pen-work to be done.

The invention comprises two, independ ently slidable, pen carriers arranged to be 'proyected, or retracted, at will and which are constructed, mounted, and related in an improved manner. The pen carriers are combined in a novel manner with a shell into which the pens may be singly, or collectively, withdrawn, thus guarding the pens from injury when neither is in use and housing one pen when the other is in use. Preferably, there is a central member, within the shell, against which the carriers slide.

The invention is set forth hereinafter and its novel features and combinations are recited in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1, is a side elevation, one of the pens being projected, with its button in position to be turned to look its carrier' Fig. 2, is a longitudinal section, the central member and penholder stem being in full lines;

Fig. 3, is a 3-3, .Fig. 2;

gig. 4, .is a detail side view of the shell:' an

Fig. 5, is a detail view of one of the pencarriers and its button.

The stem of the penholder is shownat 1 and the shell to which the en-carriers are attached, appears at 2. referably, the stem is continued as, or is provided with,-a member 3 which extends centrally and longitudinally within the shell. The shell 2 and member 3 is cylindrical. The shell 2 may detail cross-section on line be secured to the stem 1 in any desired man- The shell is provided with two longitudinal slots l, 5, each having a transverse, locking extension 6 at its outermost end. The

slots may have similar locking extensions at their innermost ends, if desired.

The pen carriers 7 and 8 are arc-shaped in cross-section and constructed to hold the pens 9 and 10 in any suitable manner, permitting their removal, when new, or other, pens are desired to be substituted.

The carriers preferably conform to the inner surf-ace of the shell 2 and to the outer surface of the central member 3 and are mounted to slide snugly, yet easily, between the said shell and member. The carriers are provided with buttons 11 and 12 secured thereto in any suitable manner, whose shanks fit, and are slidable in the slots 4., 5, and may be turned to enterthe extensions 6, to lock the carrier when the en is pro:

'jeoted. The cylindrical form 0 the member-'3 and the arc shape of the carriers 7 and 8, enables the latter to turn about the member 3, as well as slide thereon. The member 3 thus holds the carriers firmly at all times without interfering with their sliding or turning functions. 7

The buttons 11 and 12 may be colored as black and red, or provided with any ot er indicia, toindicate the ink to be used with the particular pen, or, to show the nature of the pen..

Both pens may shell 2 and thus protected when not in use. Either pen may be projected and locked by be withdrawn into the sliding its button and turning the buttoninto the transverse extension 6, as shown in The carriers 7, 8 being snugly, yet slidably, fitted in between the shell 2 and the member 3, they-are held firmly and all looseness is prevented.

Modifications may be resorted to within the spirit of the invention.

What I claim is:

1. In a duplex penholder, the combination with a shell having longitudinal slots each provided with a transverse branch, of arc-shaped en-oarriers, each provided with a button w ose shank is movable in one of said slots and adapted to be turned into the transverse branch thereof to lock said carrier, said carriers serving for withdrawal'of the .pens into the shell or their rojection therefrom, and a member exrtendmg longitudinally within the shell between the carriers and provided with curved surfaces on I l which the carriers slide and turn.

2. In a duplex penholder, the combina tion with a shell having longitudinal slots each provided with a transverse branch, of arc-shaped pen carriers, each provided with a button whose shank is movable in one of said slots and adapted to be turned into the transverse branch thereof to lock said 

